Global fissures: postcolonial fusions
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Rodopi 2006
Series:Cross/cultures 85
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Theorizing the diaspora / John C. Hawley -- The price of silence : intellectual communication in the age of globalization / Robert Spencer -- Is the world decentred? : a postcolonial perspective on globalization / Shaobo Xie -- "World famous across Canada" : national identity in the global village / Cynthia Sugars -- Ethics, aesthetics and the globalized other in Arundhati Roy's The god of small things / Chitra Sankaran -- The elephant in the living-room : a postcolonial reading of Waiting for Godot / A. Clare Brandabur -- On invasions, weeds, and wilderness : the Dutch imagination of globalization (thrice) / Isabel Hoving -- Cosmopolitan readers and postcolonial identities / C.L. Innes -- The fantasy of home / Mustapha Marrouchi -- Macaulay to Microsoft : globalization and the Indian academy / Vijayasree Chaganti & Kanukolanuk Ravichandra -- Creativity Inc. : globalizing the cultural imaginary in New Zealand / Jennifer Lawn -- Riding the whale? : postcolonialism and globalization in Whale rider / Chris Prentice -- Representing interconnection and cultural flow : towards reframing tourist experiences with new media / Martin Spaul & Amina Minhas -- AnredoM ActpO or Aztec cameras : cultural hybridity and Latin American photography / Peter D. Osborne
The essays in this volume examine the tensions between two major political and intellectual structures: the global and the postcolonial, charting the ways in which such tensions are constitutive of changing power relations between the individual, the nation-state and global forces. Contributors ask how postcolonialism, with its emphasis on cultural difference and diversity, can respond to the new, neo-imperialist imperatives of globalization. Signalling the discursive grounds for debate is the fissures/fusions title, suggesting alternative categorizations of stereotypes like 'global homogeniza
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 326 pages)
ISBN:1429456124
9042020180
9401203091
9781429456128
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